Boyd v. Mutual Fire Ass'n’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently April 2004 · most notably Harrigan v. Gilchrist (1904), Bovay v. H. M. Byllesby & Co. (1944)
2 federal appellate · 46 state decisions — followed in 14 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Wickersham v. Crittenden · Haywood v. Lincoln Lumber Co. · Linden Land Co. v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co. · Sweeny v. Sugar Refining Co. · Ellis v. Ward
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“statute of limitations did not run in favor”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.